Show INDIAN TALKS IN SIGN TO LOCAL TO 0 illustrate BOOKLET 1 I mr and mrs tedford Pick full blood pah fab vant its utes from kanosh were over laet last week and called upon the senior editor of this paper for a visit and to deliver some articles ordered to add to my indian display one was a bow and arrow another a luck charm another a cute little baby doll in the case and a teepee tor for display in small size ted also gave me a real old time hair brush which I 1 greatly prize I 1 happened to be looking at some small trilobites through a micro s scope cope when ted came in and invited him and hia his wife to take a look the magnification was twenty diameters and brought forth many bac ions of surprise I 1 am working on a project to de termine scientifically what use the former indians the I 1 old timers made of these bugs and ted aided me greatly explaining the use of the trilobite as a luck charm for those aids protections and war dings oft off of danger that are usually escrib ed to such articles some day I 1 will publish the result of my findings I 1 had a book on my counter how to talk in the indian sign language by chief buffalo child long lance ted picked it up and soon we were both greatly interested looking at the printed sign tor for boat ted said he has something of his own there or different from ours and he act ed out his ute sign As to the sign for buffalo ted showed me how the utes signify the word deer in sign projecting from head As to the word tor for crazy ted got oft off a utie litle humor at my expense we were talking about my questions ont US for indian words and so forth and I 1 said V hat do you think ot it ted he giggled and then made the sign for crazy and laughed at me I 1 am sure too he bad had it right for be he made the sign la in the book exactly the same am 0 wh wheels eels loose in the dome piece As to the sign for father he ile has different from us our father al I 1 ways above us meaning I 1 we rever ence him then II 11 dead the sign for death following and it burled buried in the ground the sign tor for that too the sign tor for eat and drink the same as in the book deer different as said the sign tor for far much like in the book very significant it Is easy when acted out bard hard to de note in words but very expressive of a far distance ted says atea have same signs a as navaho can understand each oth er As to language we pah are utes we talk same here cedar city basin but a little different in the southern part of nevada but we can get along pretty good and under stand each other ted was educated at macassin Mo cassin he knows wm win R palmer of cedar city by reputation and gave me hia his in dian than designation ted Is going to write me an article about chief kan ran osh from the india viewpoint giving his good qualities and giving me some information that the whites don t know ted says the indians make much use of signs and gesticulations in talking Ilu emphasizing or otherwise modifying meaning hence more or less familiarity with sign language in inculcated into the growing up ot of every indian boy |